Mar 11, 2015
Zumthor
"The strength of a good design lies in ourselves and in our ability to perceive the world with both emotion and reason. A good architectural design is sensuous. A good architectural design is intelligent."
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Zumthor
"The strength of a good design lies in ourselves and in our ability to perceive the world with both emotion and reason. A good architectural design is sensuous. A good architectural design is intelligent."
In the first of a series of model making workshops I run with first year students at the Sheffield School of Architecture, we explore how design ideas can be generated very quickly through modelling, and clever use of a camera's abstracting frame, elements that give a sense of scale and decent lighting.
The whole idea is to introduce students to the concept that architecture can be found in materials, rather than model making being merely a way to represent something you have already thought of.
Here are just a few of the photographs made by the students - each taking literally a few second to produce. I simply asked the students to bring in found materials from home - or from their walk to studio - and set a simple brief around generating ideas of shelter or enclosure. The students quickly developed their model making to explore ideas of colour and texture, atmosphere and transition.